Category: Dealing with Death

How Do You Talk to Children about Cancer?

22nd March 2024

How do you talk to children about Cancer? Receiving a cancer diagnosis is challenging at any age, but for children in particular, it can...

Become Unsinkable – Learn Ways to Handle Major Change.

11th February 2024

It’s Time to Let Go of What Was… I work with many parents going through the difficulties of major life changes and many of the...

Coping With Bereavement With Children.

19th September 2022

For many children their first real experience with loss happens when a pet dies. When a well loved pet...

Have You Pressed Your Family ‘Reset Button’ Due to Living Through The Pandemic?

24th July 2022

So, families have experienced something unique. Being locked down together all day, all week & all month has created new models of family dynamics and...

How to Talk to Children about Shootings: An Age-by-Age Guide.

25th May 2022

We’re all looking for ways to explain something that’s impossible to explain—because we don’t understand it and talking about terrorism/ shootings is different from...

Handling ‘The News’ With Children.

7th March 2022

I’ve recently had two children referred to me who have a fear of being shot by a terrorist after watching the news about the...

Books to Help Children Grieve the Death of a Pet.

29th November 2021

We love our pets – we have 3 dogs & 2 cats & have loved & lost other beloved dogs & cats as our...

Why R.A.I.N Can Help.

6th October 2021

A couple of years ago, I discovered a 4-step mindfulness process that offers support for difficult days. It’s called RAIN (which is an acronym for...

Sarah Everard: How parents can talk to their daughters about the horror of the murder case

5th October 2021

I’m featured today in the i newspaper and will be speaking about how to talk to daughters about the murders of Sarah Everard and...

What Happened To Sarah Everard Could Have So Easily Have Happened To My Daughter

29th September 2021

My daughter lives in Clapham Common. She walks, runs, socialises & loves the buzz of living in the area where I was born &...

Why I DON’T think singing ‘Happy Birthday’ is a good idea for kids protecting themselves from the Coronavirus

4th March 2020

? I was thinking that’s it’s not a great idea to link the ‘Happy Birthday Song’ to the Coronavirus ! ? It may become anchored in...

Category: Dealing with Death

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